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Hi,

anyone ever had that?
Sometimes the Juno Stage swallows tones. You play a phrase of tones, and every once in a while the stage just cuts of one tone...

And something isnt quite right with the touch velocity...
Sometimes the volume of the tones you hear doesnt "fit" to the amount of touch... Sometimes its to loud for an easy (piano) played note and sometimes ist not loud enough for a strong (forte) played note...

I use OS v 1.03

Can anyone help me?

That's interesting, you have 1.03? Did you update that? Factory OS?

I'm running with 1.02 and that swallows happens quite rarely.

yes... i updated it my self... got it from roland homepage...
but the "swallowing" is same with both both versions...

yours swallows tones too, sometimes?

Maybe Ill send it back and make them send me an other one...

Just a hint... Could it be the 128 voices being exceeded ? Did you make de accounting in order to see if the number of waveforms+tones per patch x number of patches x number of keys is reaching 128 ?

Have you looked at the synthesizer section of the Juno Stage? I doubt it's a hardware or software problem of the keyboard ( not impossible but definitely small chances to be that) and I think it's rather a setup. Certain tones can stop sounding due to settings related to keyboard or velocity range, or maybe to the controllers. As about the volume related to the force you press the keyboard, there are two kind of setings that affect it: the overall touch sensitivity of the keyboard and the velocity curves of the tones (wich can be checked using "Patch Edit - TVA"). If the velocity curve is set to 4 or 5 the response will be louder than normal (and the setting for "normal" is 1 ) . Also if it's 2 or 3 the response will give less volume than you would expect normally.

thx for your hints...

no its not a polyphony problem cause it also hapens if youre just using a single piano patch..

there is something not quite right with it. sometimes you play it for hours and you dont have a problem at all... strange...

I use my keyboard very often, hours, daily...
I owned at least 2 dozen keys in my life...
My old Korg 5XD had a similar problem... It was with a lot x5ds... swallowing tones... but worse than now with my juno-stage...

To me It looks more like a durty keyboard. This happened to me more then once over the years and with all keyboards I had. After some use the rubber contacts under the keys get dusty and/ or the contact board looses contact. Usually this is solved with some cleaning although I would not recomend you to do it by yourself if you are not used to it.

Some keyboards swallow tones but others simply suck

I hope nobody will be upset but... I've been waiting for a looong time to deliver this joke